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'Where Were You And What Happened On 9/11'

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On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, two of the planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the third and fourth crashed into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. The two pieces, “Where Were You” by Alan Jackson and “What Happened on 9/11” an article by Scholastic News Online, both talk about this historic event. Although, one of them more accurately interprets the day. The article gives a more sophisticated view of the day, when the song, is more informal about the day. For example, in the article there are precise details like the definition of 9/11 and how many people died during the day. In the song there are details like Iraq and Iran, and when the world stopped turning on
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